Blog : Future Shock by Alvin Toffler

This book is about what happens to people when they are overwhelmed by change. It is about the ways in which people adapt or fail to adpt to the future.

Book captures the attention of the reader with curiosity with excellent explanation of history of time and evolution of man with time. With undeniable facts,book introduces us to a new era,the Super-Industrial age where a total life changing forces. Authors tell us at what pace/rate of speed, man mooves from places to places maintaining a short-lived relations with things,people,places,organizat- ions and ideas.

What will be the life style,culture,family types,organizational structures, industry type and the scientific discoveries in the Super-Industrial society is the quest of this book.

Finally, book explores what are the limits of adaptability to face the sudden future shock, a new era in which we and our future generations are going to live. An industrial age used the help of mass education and helped people according to the need of the industrial age. Author puts more responsibility on the current education system to help people to soften the effect of the future shock.

'Future Shock' is a seminal important research work through which we acn have some glimpses of the future and accordingly we can devise the oblectives of various change programmes of the Super-Industrial society.

My View on Future Shock:

It is said that the genius is one who flows with the time. This flow of time can be understood as change. As nobody can stop the Sun from rising in the morning, nobody can stop the change which is coming into our lives and which is going to come in the life. Every change requires transition.

Transition is a phase where one has to alter oneself totally to face a particular situation. Life is not always smooth. Change is the rhythm of our life. A human has to face various stages in his life time, such as infancy, adulthood, youth and old age. During all these stages one has to transform not only physically but also through psychologically, emotionally and attitudinally. All these are very natural..no body can deny, they have to accept whether they like or not like.

It is not like that only human has to face this transition for change. If we wish to observe around, change is everywhere. Our society, our district, state, nation and entire world have been embracing the change since millions of years. In fact, entire ecosystem has been changing.

But the problem is we humans, today are unable to cope with this change. The reasons can be thousands. But we can’t give reasons for our inability to change. But we are giving. The main cause of our inability to accept the change is we have rigid value systems and thoughts, we don’t want to accept because it requires the change, and this change is going to be the obstacle in our comfortable life.

Change is the only truth of life. We can’t plan for a new future with the old and unworkable set of values and thoughts. Someone who has really adjusted with the time and welcomed the new change, when he looks back into his lifetime, he feels that he has painted a very beautiful painting. There is beauty in the change. But only one, who changes with the change, can enjoy this beauty and new avatar of life.